Measuring Mortality During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Date: Tuesday 06 December 2022, 12.00PM
Location: Online Webinar
Online Webinar
Section Group Meeting

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This talk will discuss what we found using this data and how it informed a near-real-time estimate of mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
Market and cultural forces have made www.rip.ie the most popular site for placing death notices in Ireland. Over 95% of death notices are placed on rip.ie. Due to the Irish custom of holding funerals within two to three days following death, death notices are usually placed in a fast and efficient manner, providing a valuable crowd-sourced means of tracking deaths. The notices are placed close to 'real time', we found that the average length of time between date of death and publication is about 1.1 days. In comparison, the statutory time limit is three months for the registrations of deaths in the State. This talk will discuss what we found using this data and how it informed a near-real-time estimate of mortality during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The talks begin at 12:00pm and will be preceded by the 2022 Annual General Meeting of the Official Statistics Section at 11:55am. 
 
John Flanagan is a statistician with the Central Statistics Office. After five years working in banking and insurance, he joined the CSO in 2008. Following an initial secondment to the Department of Health, he spent 4 years working on the Census. He has been in the Macroeconomic Directorate since 2013.

He studied Actuarial Mathematics at DCU (2003) followed by Business Analytics at UCD (2014).
 
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